Consulting types:

• The technical side of online collaboration (Dropbox, Google Docs, Zoom, Slack, MS, Teams, Doodle, etc.)
• The human side of online collaboration (dealing with time-zones, cultural differences, lack of in-person contact, challenges of working from home)
• Teamwork intelligence
• Culture, cross-cultural communication, and conflict
• Cultural intelligence
• Leveraging cultural differences and global dispersion

Most training programs include a complete Global Workplace Aptitude Assessment. Each employee receives a detailed personal report that details test results, identify strengths and weaknesses, and provides a personal development plan and recommendations for the following competencies:

• Online technical competency
• Cultural intelligence
• Emotional intelligence
• Communication competencies
• Leadership and team coordination competencies

Examples of recent projects

Training for a newly-formed international, globally dispersed team 

• Assessment of the team member’s GVT competencies, including:
  • Online technical competency
  • Cultural intelligence
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Communication competencies
  • Leadership and team coordination competencies
• Employee training, including:
  • Online collaboration tools
  • Dealing with time-zones, cultural differences, lack of in-person contact
  • Cultural intelligence
  • Teamwork intelligence
  • Effective coordination and performance management in global virtual teams
  • Cross-cultural conflict resolution
  • Leveraging cultural differences and global dispersion
• Team performance review, feedback, and suggestions (two weeks after the project start)

Project team size: 7 employees from four countries

Training session duration: 3 hours

Total duration: 1 month (including pre-training assessment and follow-up review/feedback)

Price: $8,000

Conversion to the virtual workplace / Work from home

• Assessment of the company’s needs and employees’ virtual collaboration competencies
• Development of the strategy to covert to the virtual workplace, including:
  • IT solutions
  • Performance appraisal and management strategy
  • Employee coordination strategy
• Employee training, including:
  • Online collaboration tools
  • Challenges and best practices of working from home
  • Effective coordination in virtual teams
  • Performance appraisal and management when working from home
• Employee transition review and feedback (weekly first 3 weeks, monthly first 3 months)
• Follow up training 4 weeks into the transition

Number of employees transitioning to working from home: 23

Price: $18,000